This critique is not based on
an entire reading of "America-Manasseh -- Fact or
Fallacy", because completion of the article ended with some glaring errors and
the most ingenuous twisting of Scripture to arrive at preconceived prophecy this editor
has ever witnessed

The gist of the argument that America
is not Manasseh is based on an analogy between Scripture which shows Ishmael to live in a
territory south of Jacob [read: Israelites], and the US (which is not a colony of true
Israel, Britain) being a territory south of Canada, which is part of true Israel.

Such a reading requires us to believe
that any country south of a British colony is Ishmael, and only British colonies are
Israel.

It's nice to see the British being so
proud of Israel that they claim to be the only Israel, but if the Tribe of Judah is
Germany, they already lost the argument. And if the Tribe of Zebulon is France, and
if the Tribe of Dan is Denmark, and if the Tribe of Asher is Sweden, and if the Tribe of
Nephtali is Norway, and if the Tribe of Isachar is Finland, and if the Tribe of Zebulon is
Holland, and if the Tribe of Benjamin is Iceland, and if the Tribe of Simeon is Spain, and
if the Tribe of Gad is Italy, they also lost the argument.

It also ignores that both the House of
Israel and the House of Judah are represented in even greater numbers in the US than they
are in their original countries. There are 180 million Americans of German descent
(Tribe of Judah), more than twice as many as the 80 million Germans in Germany.
There are 42 million Americans of Irish descent (Tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh),
12 times as many as the 3.5 million Irish in Ireland. There are more Americans of
Danish descent (Tribe of Dan) than the 5.5 million Danes in Denmark. The same is
true for every other tribe with the possible exception of the Tribe of Benjamin, which is
Iceland.

The presumption is made that Ishmael
always followed Israel, intermarried with the Israelites, that the Israelites never put
away the mixed multitude, nor upheld the law about mamzers not being permitted into the
congregation of the LORD, and that Ishmaelites and Israelites were racially
indistinguishable, all of which ignores the everlasting covenant God made with Abraham
through Jacob. Had even one of these presumptions been true, this everlasting
covenant would have been null and void from the beginning, because this covenant
intentionally excluded Ishmael.

Why would the covenant include
Abraham's grandson Jacob but exclude his own son Ishmael? Because Ishmael was the
son of Sarah's slave, Hagar? Or because Hagar was an Egyptian, making Ishmael half
Egyptian?

Phillips argues that the Egyptians were
racially indistinguishable from the Israelites:

pg. 5: "All the descendants of the line of Noah, Shem and
Abraham are of the same physical appearance and we could not pick between them in a Police
line-up 2. Such physical similarity, however, does not make the non-Israelite nations
equal with the Israelite nations because the non-Israelites were not recipients of the
promises and prophecies made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh."

How then could the Pharaoh's daughter
instantly recognize Moses as a Hebrew?:

Exo 2:6

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold,
the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This isone of the Hebrews' children.

Phillips argues that the tribes are
indistinguishable from each other:

pg. 2: "The fact is, Ephraim, Manasseh and their descendants
are indistinguishable from the rest of Israel. Given the importance of the purity of
Noahs line and that Shem was alive all through Abrams life, is it logical that
Abram would father a child from an unacceptable, foreign 'Egyptian' line and then ask God
to accept that son as his heir (Gen 17:18)?"

Why, after four centuries of captivity
in Egypt, in the middle of the desert with no written records, were the Israelites able to
distinguish Egyptians from Israelites, to identify each and every Israelite's pedigree as a member of a specific tribe, and identify the mixed
multitude as a group of people separate and distinct from the Israelites?

This serious flaw in Phillips' logic
causes them to go way off on a tangent. Had the wives of Manasseh or Ephraim been
the same race as Hagar, then they too would have voided the entire everlasting covenant
God made with Abraham through Jacob. But the Israelites upheld this part of God's
Law, the everlasting covenant was initiated when all 12 sons and grandsons of Jacob
married the proper wives, and Esau was excluded because he intentionally married the wrong
wives:

Gen 28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to
Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a
charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Gen 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

Gen 28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Gen
28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the
wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth,
to be his wife.

Rather than recognizing that God hated
Esau because Esau ignored his parents desire for him to marry someone of the proper race,
and instead took Canaanite and Hittite and Ishmaelite wives, Phillips argues that Esau was
trying to "earn favor with Isaac and Rebekah" by marrying Mahalath, an
Ishmaelite:

pg. 15: "He remained close by Abrahams family because only
Isaac and Ishmael attended the burial of Abraham and later, Esau went to Ishmael for a
wife in an effort to earn favour with Isaac and Rebekah".

Was Esau this stupid? Could he
have married the wrong women three different times by accident? Or did he marry the
wrong women on purpose? It's written that God hated Esau, and it doesn't say that
God changed His mind when he married Mahalath, so why would Phillips presume that marrying
Ishmaelites was acceptable to Israelites?

Was not Esau
Jacob's brother? says the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, but hated Esau; I made his mountains a
waste, his heritage a desert for jackals, Mal 1:3

As it is written: "I loved Jacob but hated
Esau.", Rom 9:13

Phillips goes on to speculate that
Ishmaelites and Israelites lived together, intermarried, and were racially
indistinguishable, all of which disputes the Scripture, violates the everlasting covenant
God made with Abraham through Jacob, and raises a question about where he thinks Arabs did
come from if they're not descendants of Ishmael.

There are many other errors of
interpretation of Scripture, as well as presumptions not based on reality, that will not
be addressed in this critique, but the following deserves one last rebuttal:

pg.7: "The more recent variant of these views is that America was
Manasseh when it was founded, but like Rhodesia, has been lost or
diluted or otherwise overrun/overpowered and is no longer predominantly
Israelite."

We should welcome any valid critique or compliment
regarding our success or failure at living up to God's Word, but this statement is
factually impaired. As bad as miscegenation in the US has become, it still cannot be
claimed, and even on the current course it will be more than a century before it can be
claimed, that the US is "no longer predominately Israelite".

Ishmaelites are a recognized separate race of people
called Arabs, and they constitute less than 2% of the population. Same with jews
(who are less than 1.9% of the population), Asians (who are 4% of the population), blacks
(who are 12.5% of the population), and Hispanics (who are 8% of the population). At
least 71% and perhaps as much as 79% of the American population are Israelites, with the
unknown being the 8% who are Hispanics.

We recognize the need to correct this failure to
uphold God's Law, and just as Israelites in our glorious history, we are now finally
coming to our senses and preparing to do the same thing they did:

Ezra
9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of
Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people
of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the
Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons:
so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of
those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this
trespass.

Ezra 10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the
wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those
that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of
Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood
and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their
place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed,
and worshipped Jehovah their God.

Nehemiah 13:3 Now it
came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.